Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Anti-Americanism is the oldest Mexican political tradition for the understandable reason that the “Colossus of the North,” which has reduced so many Central American countries to banana republics, is naturally perceived as a threat to continued rule by Mexico’s elites. It’s not just aggression that worries Mexico’s top dogs, but the greater all-around competence of American culture.

While President Carranza a century ago pondered Germany’s offer in the Zimmermann telegram of “generous financial support…to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona,” more recent regimes have preferred a passive-aggressive response to America’s dominance. Mexican politicians lack the stubborn audacity of Fidel Castro.

Mexico, with its superb real estate (much of the country is at high enough altitude to enjoy a mild climate), is vulnerable to Americans simply inundating the place in pursuit of retirement and vacation homes. It always made more practical sense for American baby boomers desirous of cheap servants to retire to Mexico than to import millions of Mexicans into America.

But that largely hasn’t happened because life in Mexico isn’t attractive enough to many Americans.

In a book a half decade ago, Castañeda offered a long list of reforms that would make Mexico more appealing to American retirees, from lifting the ban on foreigners buying beachfront property to installing more traffic signals to make crossing the street less harrowing.

Most important, he asked that Mexicans stop referring to Americans with the ethnic slur “gringos.” Americans don’t care about Mexican anti-Americanism, but, Castañeda pointed out, the epithet discourages Mexicans from learning from Americans how to better run their country.

Castañeda’s recommendations weren’t very popular at home, however.

Instead, Mexicans have largely forestalled the potential American influx by keeping Mexico cruddy. Their inept infrastructure, pollution, noise, and high accident rates have gotten across the message that while Mexico is an okay place to visit, you wouldn’t want to live there.

The most striking symbol of this is the continuing confusion over whether or not it’s safe to drink the water in Mexico (roughly a century after the U.S. achieved safe municipal drinking water).

Of course, Mexicans themselves pay a huge price for their various manifestations of public incompetence. For instance, Mexicans drink more bottled water than anybody else in the world, 234 liters per person annually, more than double what even rich Americans consume.

All this is a price they appear willing to pay. Why? Because Mexicans like having their own country.

I once asked a Swiss banker why Switzerland was so ludicrously expensive. He smiled and said, "it's the easiest way to keep people out". Mexico utilizes a similar strategy, only their goal is to keep Anglo-Americans out, which is best accomplished by keeping the place dirty and disorganized.

Note that they treat immigrants from the south very, very differently, since people from Central and South America are not dissuaded by the chaos.

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It's practically impossible for a native born white American to become a citizen of Mexico. And you can't own land there unless you're a citizen. You can hire a bank to buy it and make you a trustee of the land, but you can't actually own it.

Mexico's ruling elite doesn't realize that exporting their problems is the best way to trigger the Mexican War, Part II. Part I cost them everything north of the Rio Grande - Part II could cost them Baja California, maybe the south side of the Rio Grande.

If they were smart, they would do what the Japanese did...study American methods, copy what worked best for them, and beat us at our own game. Or at least try. And in the process, make their country a First World nation.

Their inept infrastructure, pollution, noise, and high accident rates have gotten across the message that while Mexico is an okay place to visit, you wouldn’t want to live there.

Not to mention the corrupt police and the cartel violence.

Anyway, it never in a million years would've occurred to me that someone would deliberately crud up their own country to keep people out. I'm going to ask what is probably a very naive question, but why doesn't Mexico just severely restrict immigration from the north while simultaneously doing what Napoleon 12pdr suggested?

I once asked a Swiss banker why Switzerland was so ludicrously expensive. He smiled and said, "it's the easiest way to keep people out".

Stanislaw Lem wrote a short story that begins with two men walking through an otherwise deserted park: one a healthy, average young man and the other a heavily-degenerated alcoholic. A pair of horrific-looking space aliens appears before them. The normal man faints at the shock of seeing them, the old drunk figures that it's just another DT hallucination and laughs it off.

The aliens discuss which of the two men to abduct and choose the drunk because despite his less healthy appearance, he is judged to be the stronger of the two because he did not faint.

They give him a full physical and mental examination on the spaceship, and conclude that Earth's inhabitants are too pathetic to be worth enslaving, so they move on to look for another planetary system.

I thought the white European ruling class of Mexico was brilliant in finding a way to dump all their problems on the US. It works for them.

What I've found odd is that the US has never, to my knowledge, taken say 20,000 or so of the illegals here, train them and organize them into a revolutionary army and them send them back home to wreak havoc and depose the Mexican elites.

Stickwick wrote:it never in a million years would've occurred to me that someone would deliberately crud up their own country to keep people out.It's the Curley effect.

the US has never, to my knowledge, taken say 20,000 or so of the illegals here, train them and organize them into a revolutionary army and them send them back home to wreak havoc and depose the Mexican elites.The last thing we should want on our southern border is a competent revolutionary army. The Zetas should have been enough to convince us of the folly of such efforts.

Conquista 2.0: threaten war with Mexico and then deport everyone who protests. If protesters waving Mexican flags are already violent with police over Trump, there will be urban chaos if tension is ratcheted up. It will be obvious there is a subversive element in the country and the progressives will be isolated with seditious foreigners.

"I once asked a Swiss banker why Switzerland was so ludicrously expensive. He smiled and said, "it's the easiest way to keep people out".

"Norwegians say the same thing."

Has it been a successful strategy? Norway and Switzerland both still have a third-world underclass. The Swiss national soccer team has a substantial number of Africans and Albanians on it. Probably more native speakers of Arabic or Albanian on it than native speakers of Romansh.

But if that strategy is still keeping lots more invaders from colonizing....then good.

Partyboob wrote:"I once asked a Swiss banker why Switzerland was so ludicrously expensive. He smiled and said, "it's the easiest way to keep people out".

"Norwegians say the same thing."

Has it been a successful strategy? Norway and Switzerland both still have a third-world underclass. The Swiss national soccer team has a substantial number of Africans and Albanians on it. Probably more native speakers of Arabic or Albanian on it than native speakers of Romansh.

But if that strategy is still keeping lots more invaders from colonizing....then good.

It would have worked better if they did not give them welfare as soon as they stepped into the country.

I once asked a Swiss banker why Switzerland was so ludicrously expensive. He smiled and said, "it's the easiest way to keep people out". AKA, the San Francisco gambit. "Keeping San Fran San Fran" via Zoning and Development regulation has the side effect of ensuring only the rich can afford to live there. And unlike New York, Chicago, and LA, geography limits the availability of living space for servants/serfs in surrounding areas.

@Stickwick: Anyway, it never in a million years would've occurred to me that someone would deliberately crud up their own country to keep people out. You should read Steve Sailer's accounts of blacks keeping Oakland black using micro- and macro- aggressions.

Perhaps Texas and Nevada could do the same thing, in a slightly different way. Everyone who is twelve and above must undergo two weeks of firearms training, and buy a pistol or revolver if they are not insane.

"Conquista 2.0: threaten war with Mexico and then deport everyone who protests. If protesters waving Mexican flags are already violent with police over Trump, there will be urban chaos if tension is ratcheted up. It will be obvious there is a subversive element in the country and the progressives will be isolated with seditious foreigners."

You would have to actually declare war, but I've thought of the same tactic. Note that in a declared war:

1. ALL nationals of the enemy state get repatriated. No hearing or trial required, they are ejected as enemy nationals.

2. Any enemy nationals who stay can be shot as spies or saboteurs.

3. Any of your OWN nationals who harbor spies or saboteurs can also be shot.

4. Any of your own nationals who interfere with the conduct of the war (as opposed to legitimate political opposition) can be imprisoned.

5. If you want to channel Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR, you can suspend habeus corpus and lock up opponents at will. Nasty and morally questionable...but after watching the garbage Bush the Younger got from the Left, I have a new sympathy for Lincoln.

Since Mexico has already declared war on us by invasion migration, I suggest lining up our border with Howitzers, Tanks, Gunships. Drop leaflets within 2 miles of Mexico from the border, telling the people that the festivities will begin within 48 hours. Then level everything within that 2 miles the length of the border. If Mexico doesn't like it, ask them if they still like Mexico City. Put up 2 fences Israel style. Make a 2 mile deep mined free-fire zone. Anyone waving a Mexican flag in protest in the rear in defense of Mexico, shoot them. Besides, waving a Mexican flag in the US is just a spit on us, and a in-your-face they are here for conquest.

@23. No, they won't. I wish that they would, because that would rip away the veil of what's really going on. But they're not anywhere near stupid enough to formally declare open war on us. They'll just continue to stealthily wage a passive-aggressive war against us while pretending that they're not.

Vox says things in the most outrageously phrased way, often laced with hidden traps for over-emotional idiots. I suppose as a means to get more exposure? Or just for the lulz?

If exposure, then it works. But what might make it work even better is to make an outrageous comment like this, delete it, let the retraction add fuel to the fire for a while, then undelete it and pretend like it was a technical glitch and you were on vacation.

That makes sense on some level, because legally there is nothing blacks can do to prevent non-blacks from entering Oakland. But Mexico is a sovereign nation and can simply deny entry to those people they don't want. Are they afraid Americans will force their way south?

Here in Baja, while the recent legal decision ratifying the common bank trust system used to allow Americans to "own" land here--and Baja being Baja, just about all the land is within the foreigner exclusion zone--the fact is that people still don't trust it, nor do they trust the Mexican courts to enforce their property rights at the end of the day.

While there have been marked improvements in the infrastructure and the water quality here in recent decades, they are still far, far below American standards. My mother just visited for the first time and while she enjoyed the people, the food and the beautiful ocean, it was still way too dirty and disorganized for her.

With regard to "gringo," you won't be surprised to hear that not only do Mexican officials use this openly in meetings here, it is official U.S. State Dept. policy that the term is not an ethnic slur.

Of course it is, and we are ritually humiliated, but none of the Yale or Harvard elites I work with known a damn about the real Mexico, so they just smile and nod.

That makes sense on some level, because legally there is nothing blacks can do to prevent non-blacks from entering Oakland. But Mexico is a sovereign nation and can simply deny entry to those people they don't want. Are they afraid Americans will force their way south?

Banning entry prevents the tourist money from flowing in.

Relying only on laws to protect them from immigration and a sort of American retiree colonization isn't going to work - see how US law fails to keep illegal aliens from being here. Now flip the direction with wealthy illegals wanting to bribe their way in ....

Better to have a culture that discourages it. (Fred Reeds notwithstanding)

I do wonder if this is actually a conscious decision, or more of an organic result. E.g. If they hadn't happened to have developed this culture, they'd have become the 51st-57th US states.

Yeah, Vox has a soft spot for Mestizos, cause he's 1/16th Cherokee or something and that blood fued died out about the time the Conquistadores arrived and Montezuma recognized Cortez as Quetzalcoatl the Flying Snake God.It'd really be interesting if Third World countries tried to stay poor and corrupt to prevent the disaster of a stable White Civilization, but of course that's just wishful thinking that only a full blown unicorn loving SJW would believe.Truth is that their rulers are Whiter than Vox himself. They trace their lineage all the way back to the Spanish. They keep power with the Myth of La Raza. Those dumb brown peons would revolt Today if they realized Vicente Fox was as White as Senor Motel Six Bush. So they have a fractured Fairy Tale to keep the Spanish Overlords connected to power and the peons on the Haciendas doing all the work.Its called La Raza or The Race. According to the Official History of Mexico, mestizos are members of La Raza and descendants of the Spaniards. This has led to harsh and cruel treatment of the Aztec Indians who should be part of the Mestizos familia but aren't so the Spanish can keep power. But Indios are a small price to pay for Spaniards to sucker Mestizos into remaining peons. That's why these brown idiots say that English is the language of White Supremacy, but speak Spanish.Oh how I wish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were alive to hear the language of the Conquistadores is not the language of White Supremacy. Oh how they would laugh. Just like people like Vicente Fox laugh behind their backs while they live off of them.

Jourdan, do yourself a favor. Never say that to a Mexican. According to their Official History of La Raza, they and Aztecs are a separate and distinct race apart from each other. The Truth matters little to people who feel strongly about something.

I have long been more than willing to impose the same kind of southern border control the Mexicans utilize for those crossing and those found illegally in the country. Sauce for the goose and all that. I think simply making it clear that we were going to impose the same treatment would cause a rapid exodus southward.

That makes sense on some level, because legally there is nothing blacks can do to prevent non-blacks from entering Oakland. But Mexico is a sovereign nation and can simply deny entry to those people they don't want. Are they afraid Americans will force their way south?

They know they are corrupt and feckless. In short order much of the more desirable locations would become America south.

I bring news from Southern Christian lands!.. .Churchian Cucks awaking from effeminate slumber because of complete SJW take over of their religion back in 1960's....a sure sign we are beginning to win because Churchian Cucks...are deep deeply anaesthetized after all these years.

Good Churchian Rod Dreher appears to be leaving Def-Con-Cuck Stage 5 and reversing into CuckStage 4...Good on him....picking up the hostile fascism and identity tribalism from left is a serious serious threat to Christian Families....he starts with comments on Catholic Depaul and Milo...admits the "Alt Right" is on to something....digs deeper and finds out we are making kills, taking scalps...mentions gamer gate..mentions trump, mentions Jack Donovan...understands masculinity is key...Curses Feminism...he still laments but understands why now and understands what it means....Suggest send troops to help regress Churchian Chuck leader back into manhood and up and out of cuck-hole completely and on his way to being a true Christian Man again....more will follow.

Churchian Cucks snapping out of it..not in wildest dreams. Thats a win.

Could it be possible to "buy up" about 200 miles of Mexico, while we still have a chance? Longitudinally, or latitudinarian, and forget the WALL?

I don't want to make a scene...but, is there no compromise?

1) If they'd sell it.

2) what would an extra few hundred square miles get us? The State of Tequila?

What are you proposing?

Simple. Our problems are with the rivers. You take them out, it makes surveillance much more simple.

300 square miles, used as-ed a buffer, would make a world of difference. I'm talking the length of the border. Perhaps I was too light in suggesting 200 square miles. I'm talking LENGTH....not territory.

@59 Of Course, he is only at Cuck-Stage 4...he is currently only "Contemplating Red Pill"....he also wears the "Edna Mode" glasses from the incredibles and the cuckface looks almost permanent....He may fall back into stage 5...

Churchian Cucks have it bad as they have no semblance of finding masculine authority in their religion again...they have been told its "Un-Christian"

To the lawyers, there is now precedent to attempt to get as many whites out of Africa as possible. I think Georgians and Russians are also in talks with boer and afrikaan farmers to reclaim unused farmlands in their respective territories.

Clay wrote:Simple. Our problems are with the rivers. You take them out, it makes surveillance much more simple.

They aren't tunnelling under the river. The Rio Grande stops being the border around El Paso; so you are only trying to solve the Texas border problem...by taking in a bunch of major Mexican cities, like Matamoros and Nuevo Laredo.

64. Rusty Fife May 26, 2016 5:21 AMClay wrote:Simple. Our problems are with the rivers. You take them out, it makes surveillance much more simple.

They aren't tunnelling under the river. The Rio Grande stops being the border around El Paso; so you are only trying to solve the Texas border problem...by taking in a bunch of major Mexican cities, like Matamoros and Nuevo Laredo.

Man, I will suppose you've never been there. The Rio Grande is the supposed stupid border from the US to Mexico.

I, myself, have walked across it, and it was barely to my knees.

I'm saying, MOVE IT BACK. So the wall, isn't necessary. Use the room/territory gained as a universal US Military training area.

My father in law visited Mexico in 1986. He told me that after eating some Mexican good he started feeling very sick and he said in Mexico they call that Montezumas revenge. But he was able to find a drug store and he took a pill and then felt better

Carlos Slim isn't even Mexican. If that guy is anything but a globalist vampire, then I'm a Goddamn Chinaman.Dracula AKA Vlad Tepes was a Great White Hero. He saved Western Civilization by making a whole Islamic Invading Army into Shish Kabobs in Transylvania. Kebab will turn around and run home if he believes you will turn him into a Shish Kabob.Only a retard like our demented Satanic parasites would be dumb enough to make a Great White Hero into them. Stupid is as stupid does. A box of chocolates has a thing on the bottom telling you what they are if you're smart enough to read it before you start eating.Knowledge isn't power, it why I'm going to win and they're going to lose. Knowing is half the battle, the other half is blood and iron, guns and butter. Victory is Blood and Soil. Propositions only work on whores.

Current birth and census documents have a dozen flavors of Hispanic because hidalgo Hispanics do so well that they risk destroying mestizo's victim status. Mexico's rulers are almost as white as Spaniards. Brazil is a camel with 3 bell curves.

There are White-run towns near the Chinese colony of Arcadia, California, that are aware that the Mexican minorities that have destroyed their schools have also made their towns unappealing to the Chinese. Private school tuition is the price they pay to keep the Chinese out.